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He told me he didn’t have that ethic that the rest of the musicians have, always coming up with something new, never repeating themselves. Every note, all the phrasing, is perfect. I, of course, revere him for the same reason as I revere Count Basie. He was a very nice person, nice to me, anyway. I thought that he lived on a cloud somewhere, in a palace, not in Queens. It was in the subway and he was with his wife, they were going home to Queens. I have a book on him, and I’m not even reading it, I just can’t quite get into it.ĬB: I actually met Louis Armstrong! That was really amazing.

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I didn’t know that at the time, so later I absolved him from his crime. Later I found out that even before Billy Strayhorn started writing music for the band, there was some great music in the earliest Duke bands. I didn’t see him a lot either, because he worked festivals and I worked clubs. But aside from that, I didn’t like his style of playing or talking to people. I thought he was stealing music from Billy Strayhorn, basically. I can’t hold myself to that standard, but I can appreciate it.ĬB: I never liked Duke Ellington.

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That’s the final arbiter of how to play two notes, the distance between them and the volume of them is perfect. That was really interesting.Īn early influence and still something to always answer to the question,”Who do I like as a piano player:” Count Basie. They’d all be sitting there in the audience and watching their husbands play with Count Basie. On Sundays at the Jazz Gallery there’d be family day, and every guy in the band could bring his wife and children to the gig. I just sort of wrapped myself in the atmosphere of a Basie gig. Neal Hefti got a lot of credit, but some of the other guys like Ernie Wilkins were more interesting to me.

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I was very impressed by him and the whole band, particularly all the arrangers and the fact that they weren’t getting any credit for it, as far as I thought, they weren’t. I sort of picked up on a lot of it and put it away for use later. That’s the kind of music I wanted to hear, and that’s what I learned.

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I got to hear him more than anyone else, and it was an education. Count Basie was playing at Birdland, Basin Street, and the Jazz Gallery when I was working as a cigarette girl. We could start with Count Basie.Ĭarla Bley: Okay, that would be a good one. Instead of going over a bunch of ground that’s already documented, I simply have list of names to ask you about to see if anything comes to mind. Beal, and you yourself have written about your own music quite a bit over the years. (From January 2018 and transcribed by Lysa Hale.)Įthan Iverson: Carla, you’ve been interviewed so much.







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